Vintage Alcohol ads from the 1800’s
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Amazing vintage imagery from the golden age of spirits and cocktails.
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19th Century Book Ads
These are all advertisements for books put out in the nineteenth century in France.
19th Century:
Book ads from 19th-century France
Ads for well-known French novels from the 19th century by Victor Hugo, Eugène Sue, and Emile Zola. Like most novels from this period, they were first published in serialized form.
Filed under Humor and Observations, Uncategorized, Writing
Pictures of Egypt 1860 – 1880
reposted from:
http://www.retronaut.com/2012/11/the-levant-by-felix-bonfils/
1860s-1880s:
The Middle East by Félix Bonfils
Chris Wild
Arabians
Barber shaving boy’s head
Beirut
Cairo
Cairo
Cairo
Cairo
Constantinople
Damascus
Entrance to the Great Pyramid
Gates of the Holy Sepulchre
Giza
Giza
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Karnak
Mummies for sale
Palmyra
Petra
Pyramids
Road to Bethlehem
Sakkara, Egypt
Sphinx
Syria
Temple of the Sun
The Great Pyramid
The Sphinx
Tomb of El-Kefr
Tombs of the Judges
Western Wall
‘Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East. Four years after his arrival he reported 15,000 prints of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece, and 9,000 stereoscopic-views‘
Source : Library of Congress
Filed under Humor and Observations
First Advertisements for Cars
reposted from Retronaut
THE FIRST CAR AD, 1898
The first automobile advertisement – Scientific American, February /March 1898
“The Winton Motor Carriage Company was one of the first American companies to sell a motor car. On March 24, 1898 Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania became the first person to buy a Winton automobile after seeing the first automobile advertisement in Scientific American.”
June 26th, 2012
Filed under Humor and Observations
Michael Bradley - Time Traveler 